Improvement in fulling-mills



imi tant' @met @time JAMES H. WAITE, 0E ORANGE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIeNon To HIMSELE, EoDNEY HUNT, AND DAVID B. ELINT, 0E `THE SAME PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 87,806, dated Ma/rch 16, 1869. w

IMPRQVEMENT IN ULLINMILLs.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all persons to whomgthese presents may come:

ABe it known that I, JAMES HVAITE, of Orange, in the county of Franklin, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Machine for Fulling Cloth; land I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the acccmpanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section, and

Figure 2, a horizontal section of it.

Figure 3 is a side elevation. vFigure 4 is a vertical section of it, such section being taken through the springs of its rear iiuted rollers.

Figure 5 is another-vertical section of it, the plane of section being taken through the springs of the front tinted rollers.

My present invention is an improvement with reference to the machine for which Letters Patent, No. 36,005, dated July 29, 1862, were granted to Rodney Hunt and myself.

My improvement consists in the employment of crimping-rollers, or gears, in the place of plain rollers, F G, and with jaws and a packing-conduit, such as are shown in the drawings of the said patent, such gears, or crimping-rollers, being productive of a new and useful effect or result, viz, the corrngating of the Vcloth while passing between them, and thereby fulling it to better advantage.

And in further carrying out my improvement, I employbut one packing-conduit, one pair of guides or jaws, and one pair of `crimping-rollers arranged therein with the main horizontal rollers, and two pairs of crimpingrollers arranged in rear of the said main rollers; the two pieces of cloth, after having been passed from the rear sets of crimping-rollers, toand between the two main rollers, and thence between the front set of crimpingrollers, being separated and led down on opposite sides of the middle partition, each piece going through one of the spaces K K, arranged on opposite sides of such partition.

over the partition, to b quite as effective, if not more so, than the two packing-conduits, and their sets of spring-jaws, as used in the patented machine.

In the drawings- A and B denote the main squeeze-rollers as arranged within a case, E, one being placed directly over the other, and both having their axes horizontal.

A driving-pulley, C, is xed on the shaft of the lower roller B.

The case E is arranged -within and supported by a gallows-frame, D.

Directly in rear of the rollers A B, are two sets of long crimping-gears, F G.

rIhe teeth of each gear, F or G, engage with those of the other, so that when a piece of cloth may be passing between the pair of gears, they will crimp or corrugate it.

The axis' of one of the gears of each pair is so pivoted in a frame, a, as to maintain its upright position therein while the gear may be in revolution.

The other, or fellow-gear, however, turns on adeadspindle, or vibrator-y rod, b, which, at its foot, is pivoted or hinged to the frame a, so as to enable such rod to vibrate laterally, and in a Slot, n, within the upper bar of the frame a. l

A connecting-rod, d, leads from the upper part of the rod b to the free end of one of two springs, e e, applied to the outside of the case.

These springs enable the rollers to separate from their fellows, and cause each pair of them to firmly grasp the cloth while it may be between them.

In rear of the two sets of crimping-gears, or rollers, is a horizontal guide-roller, II, and in advance of the main rollers A B, is a single packing-conduit, or throat, N, which is pwvided with two vibratory guides, or j aws, f f, which, at their rear ends, are pivoted to the conduit.

These guides are inclined toward each other, and answer the purpose of the pair of jaws, and also of supporting a set of crimping-gears, or rollers, g g, which engage with each other and revolve freely on axis supported by the jaws, or guides.

From the packing-throat, a partition, h, extends downward. and across the case E, from side to side of it. i

.From the middle of the partition h, another vertical partition, i, projects, and extends to the bottom of the case, the whole being as represented in. the drawings, the same forming twoseparate passages, K K, for the two pieces of cloth to pass into, and through, and pack in.

The machine, like the patented one, has to the shaft of its upper roller, A,vs^prings, to press such roller tof ward the roller B.

I find the single packing-conduit, provided with jaws r and a single set oi"c1imping1ollers arranged directly v In the operation ofthe above-described improved machine, two pieces of cloth are to be run between the gears of each of the two sets of crimping-rollers F G, from whence the pieces are to be led betweenthe gears A B, thence into the packing-conduit, and between its jaws, or guides, and the crimping-gears thereof. Next, the two pieces are to separate and pass through the two passages K K, where they may be laid in folds. Finally, the two ends of each piece of cloth are to be sewed or 'connected together.

vThis having been accomplished, and thesoaping or the liquoring-cisterns I, arranged on opposite sides of the machine, having been supplied with liquid soap, or a saponaceous matter', as usually employed in machines for fulling cloth, the roller B should be put in revolution, ina direction to cause the pieces ofcloth to be drawn forward 'between the crimping-gears F G, and forced into the packing-conduit, and between its guides, or jaws, and its crimping-gears. From thence the piecesof cloth will be discharged, and will go through the passages K K, the operations of the main rollers, the crimping-gears, the guides, and the packing-box, servingto full it, as will be understood `by persons skilled in the use of the patented machine hereinbefore men,- tioned.

I do not herein claim the subject or the subjects of the said patent.

I would observe that I am aware of the fallingmachine, represented in the United States patent, No. 51,884, granted, January 2, 1866, to Milton D. Whipple.

In such machine, two pairs of luted rollers are used, with a heater disposed between them, alnd with a wash-box, and drying-apparatus.

f I make no claim to such an employment of tinted rollers with a heater, one set being arranged in advance and the 'other in rear of the heater.

I employ crimping-rollers, with a packing-conduit, N, and its jaws, ff, and with main or plain rollers interposed between the said crimping-jaws and packingconduit; and, furthermore, the axes of the crimpingrollers are arranged vertically, or thereabouts, while those of the rollers A B are horizontal. The crimping of the cloth by the rollers F G is therefore in a direction at right angles to that in which the cloth is moved by the rollers A B, and thus they only partially take out the crimps of the cloth. This crimping the cloth causes it to pack better' in the conduit N.

What I claim as my invention, is-- The combination and arrangement ofcrimping-gcars, or rollers F G, instead of plain rollers, with the main rollers A B, packing-conduit N ,and the case'E, and A its passages, of the fulling-machine.

Also, the combination and varrangement of the set of crimping-rollers, or gears g g,'with the jaws ff and 

